Oil-can and lamp-filler.



No. 735,507. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903.. H. L. HAUSER.

OIL CAN AND LAMP FILLER.

APPLICATION FILED uni, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

' UNITED STATES Patented August 4, 1.903.

HORACE L. HAUSER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

' OlL-CAN'AND LAM P-FILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 735,507, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed May 1, 1902. serial No. 105,49 7. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE L. HAUSER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Oil- Oan and Lamp-Filler, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to facilitate filling and em ptying lamps with oil and removing liquid of any kind from one vessel into another while both vessels are stationary and to prevent the waste of oil and dangers and accidents incident to filling lamps.

Heretofore an auxiliary chamber has been located in the bottom of a can and provided with an automatic valve that was opened and closed by air-pressure; but in no instance has an auxiliary chamber having valve communication with the can been provided with a tube for forcing air into the chamber and also for opening and closing the valve by means of the same tube, as contemplated by my invention, which consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of a can, tubes, and an air-pump and valves, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, andillustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a side elevation of the apparatus, from which parts are broken away to show an auxiliary chamber at its bottom and the positions of the tubes and the pump and valves relative to each other and the two distinct chambers of the can.

The numeral 10 designates a can, preferably made of sheet metal and cylindrical. A bottom 12 is fixed to the lower portion, and a transverse partition 13 is fixed to the wall of the can 10, as shown, or in any suitable way to produce an auxiliary chamber at the lower end of the can. Atube 14 is extended through a bearing 15, fixed in the top of the can, and a valve-seat 16, fixed in a coinciding position in the partition 13, and a valve 17, fixed to the tube, so the flow of liquid from the can into the auxiliary chamber can be readily regulated by the tube and the valve fixed to the tube and fitted in the valve-seat 16.

An opening at the top of the can I0,provided' ber bulb 20 on the top end of the metal tube 14, as shown, or in any suitable way, serves as a means of forcing air into the auxiliary. chamber. The bulb has a valve 21 to admitair as required to inflate the bulb and to prevent its escape when the bulb is compressed in a persons hand, as required to force air through the tube 14 and into the auxiliary chamber at the bottom of the can.

Atube 22, composed of a straight lower portion and a curved topportion telescopically connected for conveying liquid in and out of the auxiliary chamber, is preferably extended through the top of the can 10 and the fixed partition 13 to terminate in and communicate with the lower part of the auxiliary chamber, as shown, orin any suitable way.

When the tube 14 is in position to close the valve 17 in the partition 13 and the bulb 20 is compressed, air will be forced down into the auxiliary chamber to press the liquid therefrom up through the tube 22 and into a lamp or other receptacle in proper position for receiving it.

A clasp 23, consisting of spring-wire, is

fixed to the top of the tube 14 to engage the top ofthe can, as shown, or in any suitable way, as required to retain the tube 14 stationary and the valve 17 closed. By depressing the tube the valve may be readily opened to allow oil to flow into the auxiliary chamber. By this means of allowing the flow of oil into the auxiliary chamber the quantity can be limited at the will of the operator, so that air can be forced into the auxiliary chamber to force such measured quantities out of the chamber into'a lamp, while the contents of the main and upper chamber of to the tube, and an air-pump connected with the top of the tube, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. In an oil-can and lamp-filler an air-tight vessel having a fixed partition at its lower end portion to produce an auxiliary chamber, a valve-seat fixed in the partition, a tube extending down through the top of the vessel and through the valve-seat, a valve fixed to the tube and the lower end of the tube curved upward, a clasp at the top of the can to engage the tube, and an air-pump, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

3. An oi1-can and lamp-filler comprising a can closed at its top and provided with a fixed partition an auxiliary chamber under the partition, a valve-seat in the partition, a tube extended down through the top of the can and valve-seat in the partition, a valve fixed to the tube and an upward curve at the lower end of the tube that carries the valve, an air-pump at the top of the tube, a second tube communicating with the auxiliary chamber for conveying oil to a lamp and means for retaining the tube and the valve carried by the tube stationary, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

HORACE L. HAUSER. Witnesses:

R. H. ORWIG, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

